"My great hope is to laugh as..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.”

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”

“I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's half empty... I look at the same glass and say: Hallelujah!! It's half full!!!”

“Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”

“The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.”

“We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.”

“Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?”

“Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.”

“A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.”